Use this cable to connect your Mac, iPhone, or iPad to a device that uses Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, or USB-C for data transfer, such as an external hard drive or dock. It supports Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, and USB 4 data-transfer speeds up to 40Gbps and USB 3.2 Gen 2 data-transfer speeds up to 10Gbps.
You have DisplayPort cables, Thunderbolt cables, and normal USB cables, all of which use the same plug. The connector looks the same, being USB Type-C, but Thunderbolt 4 assures you're getting the So, by chance, my MacBook Pro that has USB-C has a bulging battery and is in for repair. So I set up a 2012 Mac Mini as a temporary work machine, and then took one of the USB-C to Thunderbolt adapters I bought for the Macbook Pro, added a Thunderbolt cable, and plugged it in between the Mini (Thunderbolt 1) and the CalDigit TS3 (USB-C Thunderbolt 3). The Scarlett interface is a USB 2.0 interface, using a USB 2.0+ (e.g., USB 3.0, 3,1 etc.) cable will work, but the increased bandwidth will not offer any benefits to the signal quality or latency speed. We recommend you use the shortest USB cable you can. We do not recommend using cables longer than 2m in length. Longer cables can cause issuesThunderbolt uses a laptop's USB-C ports through a repurposing called "alt mode," but not all USB-C ports support Thunderbolt. Alt mode also can let you plug in external monitors' HDMI and
The data signal portion of the Thunderbolt cable allowed the display to use USB ports, a FireWire port, and a Gigabit Ethernet over a single cable. More Than One Device in One Port Thunderbolt can run multiple devices from a single peripheral port because of its daisy chain functionality.
In your case you should consider the WD15 USB-C dock. It's limited to dual 1080p displays because it only uses USB Type-C rather than Thunderbolt, but that also means it can use a longer cable -- and it's cheaper. However, I haven't investigated whether the dock side uses the standard connector.
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